In the Indian Holy Book – THE UPANISADS (800 B.C.), man has been described as “the son of the Sublime” (“Amritasya Putra”). It is recorded in the first chapter of the Book of Genesis (First Book of Holy Hebrew Bible [The Old Testament (c. 200 B.C.)] that God made man in his own image after his likeness as the crowning glory of his creation. The Holy Koran (c. 630 A.D.) says : “God sends down no...

There are many distributed systems which use a leader in their logic. When such systems need to be fault tolerant and the current leader suffers a technical problem, it is necesary to apply a special algorithm in order to choose a new leader. In this paper I present a new fault tolerant algorithm which elects a new leader based on a random roulette wheel selection.

A new probabilistic methodology for transmission expansion planning (TEP) that does not require a priori specification of new/additional transmission capacities and uses the concept of social welfare has been proposed. Two new concepts have been introduced in this paper: (i) roulette wheel methodology has been used to calculate the capacity of new transmission lines and (ii) load flow analysis ...

This paper presents a new selection method for Genetic Algorithms based upon the concepts of the Evolutionary Game Theory, enabling individuals to compete for available resources. Hence they have the possibility to alter their adaptability and as an effect, assume an influential role on the generation of offspring. The results of some simulations of this technique are presented and compared wit...

Nerve conduction in unmyelinated fibers has long been described based on the equivalent circuit model and cable theory. However, without the change in ionic concentration gradient across the membrane, there would be no generation or propagation of the action potential. Based on this concept, we employ a new conductive model focusing on the distribution of voltage-gated sodium ion channels and C...

Abstract The present study contributes to the literature by examining association between personal values (PVs), assessed with Schwartz’s Portrait Values Questionnaire, and empathy, Davis’ Interpersonal Reactivity Index, in a sample of first-year medical students. We also examined students’ PVs profile gender differences terms PVs. All participants ( N = 398) were Italian, young (average age 19...

We propose novel adaptive filtering algorithms based on the mean-fourth error objective while providing further improvements on the convergence performance through proportionate update. We exploit the sparsity of the system in the mean-fourth error framework through the proportionate normalized least mean fourth (PNLMF) algorithm. In order to broaden the applicability of the PNLMF algorithm to ...